Guide

ChatGPT can now build slides with your team: prompts to use it well

Published 3 October 2026

A laptop showing a slide outline with numbered sections, next to a printed agenda with handwritten notes

Short answerChatGPT's new interactive slides let you and your team build a deck together from a conversation or a template, with live editing and comments, then export it to PowerPoint or Google Slides. Start with an outline prompt before you touch any slide design.

OpenAI announced interactive slides for ChatGPT at DevDay on 29 September 2026. According to OpenAI's own DevDay recap, you build a deck with ChatGPT and your team from a conversation or your own template. Several people, and agents, can edit the same deck at once and leave comments, and you can present straight from ChatGPT or export to PowerPoint or Google Slides with the formatting kept intact. OpenAI says it's rolling out to Pro, Business and Enterprise plans over the following weeks.

This changes how a deck gets made: instead of generating one finished presentation and starting over if it's wrong, you keep working on the same deck with people and the model together. The part that still matters most is what you ask for before any slide exists.

Start with an outline, not a slide

The biggest time-saver isn't the slide design. It's getting the structure right before ChatGPT builds anything. Use the presentation outline prompt first:

prompt — 4 blanks

Act as a presentation coach. Build a slide-by-slide outline.

Topic: [TOPIC]
Audience: [WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY CARE ABOUT]
Length: [MINUTES]
Goal: [WHAT SHOULD THE AUDIENCE DO OR DECIDE AFTERWARDS]

For each slide, give me a one-line title and the one point it should make. Flag any slide where I haven't given you enough to say something specific.

Paste this into the chat before you open interactive slides, or at the start of the deck conversation if you're building it straight inside the tool. An outline you've checked over is far easier to turn into slides than a half-formed idea, and easier for a teammate to edit without guessing what you meant.

Pitching for money or budget

If the deck is a pitch, use the more specific startup pitch deck outline prompt instead of the general one:

prompt — 4 blanks

Create a 10-slide pitch deck outline for [COMPANY], a [ONE-LINE DESCRIPTION].

Audience: [SEED INVESTORS / ANGELS / A BANK]
Key facts: [TRACTION, MARKET SIZE, TEAM BACKGROUND]

Give me the slide order, a one-line headline for each, and the single number or fact that slide needs to prove its point.

Investors and a bank's credit committee want different things on slide three. Say who you're pitching to, and don't let the model guess.

Slide art for anything the template doesn't cover

Interactive slides will offer templates, but a template rarely has the exact cover, agenda or closing slide you want. For a custom look, generate the art separately and drop it into the deck as an image.

A cover slide:

prompt — 3 blanks

Pitch deck cover slide for "[COMPANY NAME]" with the tagline "[TAGLINE]", a striking abstract [COLOUR] gradient shape on the right, clean bold sans-serif title text on the left, plenty of empty space, no clutter.

Use the pitch deck cover slide prompt for the exact version, and the agenda slide prompt for a numbered contents page that matches it. If you want to open or close with a line from a customer or a mentor, the quote slide prompt sets it in large type with the attribution underneath.

Keep the colour and type style consistent across every slide you generate separately, or the deck will look like it was made by two different people. Say the same colour name and the same general style ("clean bold sans-serif") in every prompt.

Before you present

A deck that looks finished isn't the same as a deck that answers the hard question. Before you present, run your summary through a Q&A preparation prompt so you're not caught out live:

prompt — 3 blanks

I will present on [TOPIC] to [AUDIENCE]. Here is my summary:

[PASTE SUMMARY OR SLIDES]

Predict the 12 most likely questions, including three hostile or tough ones. For each, give me a one-sentence answer I can say from memory.

Where to go from here

If the deck needs real numbers pulled from a long document first, see our guide to Claude Fable 5.1, which is strong at turning research into a finished document or deck. Browse more outline, pitch and slide-design prompts in chat and writing prompts, or use the prompt builder to fill in your own topic and audience.